British Indian Army

Forgotten Sacrifices & Friendships Unknown – now set in stone in Vernon BC To mark the centennial of the battle of the Somme IMFC was recently honoured by Vernon Military Tattoo event organisers with a prime location for the Duty, Honour Izzat display. Installed…

In sacred fields of tomorrows lost, lie eastern sons of a foreign soil, desolate, where the poppies blow, their names known only unto God. In Remembrance of the men of the Canadian & Indian Expeditionary forces that gave their lives for King & Crown, in…

Posted April 26th 2015 In Remembrance of the men of the British, Canadian, ANZAC & Indian Expeditionary forces that lost their lives 100 years ago in Flanders and Gallipoli. When war broke out, men of the Punjab were first to land in Europe to reinforce…

The winter of 1914-15 had paralysed an overwhelming German force, entrenching it in a frozen scar across the French & Belgian landscape. While the winter would be hard on everyone, Indian moral remained high as the battered allies glad for the respite settled into a…